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[ghartl1]

You will not need to mount the share.

because the shares are already mounted at boottime...i assume

does this work with apps too (openoffice save a document on this windowssahre...)

[nightflier]

You will not need to mount the share.

Konqueror takes care of all that in the background, but one problem I found on my system is that Openoffice's open/save menu only shows the file tree. I don't see access to the smb:// protocol, so some sort of automount may be preferable.

I have successfully used simple shell scripts to do this. Here is one way:

Create a file somewhere, let's say /home/user/.credentials with this content:

Code:

username=your_user_name
password=your_password

Now make a script, for example /home/user/mountsmb.sh

Code:

#! /bin/bash
smbmount -o credentials=/home/user/.credentials //IP_or_name/share /home/user/some_dir

make the script executable:
chmod +x /home/user/mountsmb.sh

You should now be able to mount your shares by executing the script. If you want it to be done automatically, just move the script to /home/user/.kde/Autostart/

[ghartl1]

thanks nightflier..

thats what im looking for....so i dont need to athentificate  me on the other box...

have to try it for myself....

thanks again..and for your patience

greets günter

[nightflier]

Happy to be of any help.

I realized I got the syntax backwards on that script, it needs to be:

Code:

#! /bin/bash
smbmount //IP_or_name/share /home/user/some_dir -o credentials=/home/user/.credentials

Another detail, smbmnt must be installed suid, as described here:
http://www.vectorlinux.com/forum2/index.php?topic=84.0